한국의 최근 민법개정과 소비자법 - 보증⋅여행에 관한 「2015년 개정민법」을 중심으로 -

This paper is to introduce the contents of the revised Civil Code in 2015 (“the 2015 Revised Civil Code”). The 2015 revised Civil Code has provisions for the protection of guarantors and travelers in guarantee contract and travel contract, and either is closely related to the Consumer Contract Law. With respect to guarantee contract, the written contract requirement and the obligation of the creditor to provide information has been newly established, and both of which is the generalization of the important principles of the Consumer Contract Law in the Civil Code. Meanwhile, the travel contract has been newly added as a typical contract of the Civil Code, including the cancellation of the commencement of travel, termination due to unavoidable reasons after the commencement of travel, and the warranty of the travel organizer. It can be assessed that a consumer contract has been realized as a typical contract in the Civil Code, given that travel contract is a type of consumer contract. Regarding the relationship between consumer law and civil law, Korea is neither a country with the “Consumer Contract Act” as a special law of the Civil Code like Japan, nor a country like Germany that incorporated the special laws on consumer contract into the Civil Code. The 2015 revised Civil Code did not follow any of the above legislative models, nor did it use the consumer concept, generalized some of the main contents and principles of the Consumer Contract Law into the Civil Code, and also realized a consumer contract as a typical contract in the Civil Code. If the above trend continues with respect to the relationship between consumer law and civil law in the future, it would be possible to understand this trend as a legislative model (a “generalization model”) in which the contents, principles or ideas of consumer law are generalized to the Civil Code without using the consumer concept.